Earth Day Symposium

Series Overview

The Earth Day Symposium provides a two-day training and networking program for local government staff, officials and the professional community to provide continuing education in a specific topic. Earth Day symposia typically focus on current challenges and opportunities relating to water quality and storm water management. In 2012, we will shift from our traditional focus on water conservation and management to land use policy and planning–mark your calendar to join us:

2012 St. Louis Earth Day Symposium

Eco-Logical:
Policy, planning and tools to support sustainable transportation, land use and resource conservation

April 5-6, Missouri Botanical Garden
click here for details and to register

Sustainability at the Symposium

In keeping with our mission to foster a greater level of environmental stewardship in the St. Louis region, we apply our event-greening program–Recycling On the Go– to the Symposium to reduce the negative environmental impact of the event. This includes providing recycling and composting services, and organizing lunch from a caterer that exercises environmentally responsible practices and offers locally produced food.

We encourage each Symposium participants to help the effort by doing the following:

• Bring your own water bottle and coffee cup for reuse.
• Place all recyclables in the blue-topped recycling bins.
• Place all food waste and paper-based wrappings in the green-topped compost bins.
• Recycle your program.
• Car pool to symposium events or ride your bike or take the metro.

In 2009, we were able to save 75 lbs of recycling, 32 lbs of organic waste and 34 lbs of edible food from an all too certain fate in the landfill. With only 26 lbs of trash, we achieved a diversion rate of 84%!

Click here to view the 2010 Symposium Report.

Symposium Planning Committee

Year after year, the Symposium is stitched together by a team of volunteer professionals and community leaders under the facilitation of St. Louis Earth Day. Without their help, the event would pale in comparison to the vibrant program that returns year after year, adapting to reflect the interests of the planning committee and the most pressing environmental issues of the day.

Interested in being part of our planning committee? Contact: info@stlouisearthday.orgfor inclusion on our mailing list.

Symposium Partners

American Planning Association – St. Louis, American Society of Civil Engineers – St. Louis, American Society of Landscape Architects – St. Louis, The Confluence, East-West Gateway Council of Governments, Greenway Network, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, Missouri American Water, Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Department of Natural Resources and various local governments.